La Harpe issued in Paris, 1780-1801, in thirty-two volumes,—Comeyras editing the last eleven,—his _Abrégé de l’histoire générale des voyages_, which proved a more readable and popular book than Prévost’s collection. There have been later editions and continuations.[249] Johann Reinhold Forster made a positive contribution to this field of compilation when he printed his _Geschichte der Entdeckungen und Schifffahrten im Norden_ at Frankfort in 1785.[250] He goes back to the earliest explorations, and considers the credibility of the Zeno narrative. He starts with Gomez for the Spanish section. A French collection by Berenger, _Voyages faits autour du monde_ (Paris, 1788-1789), is very scant on Magellan, Drake, and Cavendish. A collection was published in London (1789) by Richardson on the voyages of the Portuguese and Spaniards during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Mavor’s _Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries_ (London, 1796-1802), twenty-five volumes, is a condensed treatment, which passed to other editions in 1810 and 1813-1815. A standard compilation appeared in John Pinkerton’s _General Collection of Voyages_ (London, 1808-1814), in seventeen volumes,[251] with over two hundred maps and plates, repeating the essential English narratives of earlier collections, and translating those from foreign languages afresh, preserving largely the language of the explorers. Pinkerton, as an editor, was learned, but somewhat pedantic and over-confident; and a certain agglutinizing habit indicates a process of amassment rather than of selection and assimilation. Volumes xii., xiii., and xiv. are given to America; but the operations of the Spaniards on the main, and particularly on the Pacific coast of North America, are rather scantily chronicled.[252] In 1808 was begun, under the supervision of Malte-Brun and others, the well-known _Annales des voyages_, which was continued to 1815, making twenty-five volumes. A new series, _Nouvelles annales des voyages_, was begun in 1819. The whole work is an important gathering of original sources and learned comment, and is in considerable part devoted to America. A French _Collection abrégée des voyages_, by Bancarel, appeared in Paris in 1808-1809, in twelve volumes. _The Collection of the best Voyages and Travels_, compiled by Robert Kerr, and published in Edinburgh in 1811-1824, in eighteen octavo volumes, is a useful one, though the scheme was not wholly carried out. It includes an historical essay on the progress of navigation and discovery by W. Stevenson. It also includes among others the Northmen and Zeni voyages, the travels of Marco Polo and Galvano, the African discoveries of the Portuguese. The voyages of Columbus and his successors begin in vol. iii.; and the narratives of these voyages are continued through vol. vi., though those of Drake, Cavendish, Hawkins, Davis, Magellan, and others come later in the series.